Strip waves in vibrated shear-thickening wormlike micellar solutions.
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چکیده
We present an instability in vertically vibrated dilute wormlike micellar solutions. Above a critical driving acceleration the fluid forms elongated solitary domains of high amplitude waves. We model this instability using a Mathieu equation modified to account for the non-Newtonian character of the fluid. We find that our model successfully reproduces the observed transitions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
دوره 81 6 Pt 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010